"How do you feel about the line, "I want you to vote for me, because I support smaller government"?
I replied:1. It gives me very little information about what he will do if elected.
2. But it does mean that, since he is pretending to be one of us, we will get blamed for what he does, even if it has nothing to do with the views we support.
That's why, on the whole, I thought it would be better if Bush had lost the most recent election--not that his opponent would have been any better but that at least we wouldn't have gotten blamed for what he did.
And of course the financial markets have been unregulated all these years.
It really is frustrating that:
1) Republican ideals are associated with free markets
2) our current crony capitalism is associated with free markets
Makes it very difficult/near impossible to explain the undercurrents of what is going on -- why we've gotten to this point, etc. Sigh.